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A Softer Approach From U.S.
Lessens Tension With Canada

By

Joseph Schuman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Jan. 13, 2004 12:46 p.m. ET

The new year has found the Bush administration trying across a wide range of fronts to improve international relations frozen last year by disagreement over Iraq, and today brought a significant thaw with Canada. President Bush, after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at the Summit of the Americas in Mexico, said Canadian companies would be allowed to participate in the next round of bidding for U.S.-funded reconstruction projects in Iraq, reversing in this case the administration's ban on countries that opposed...